rev up your engines now sure lots of
people don't want to have a cookie cutter car that looks like everybody
else and maybe you want a car that's easier to find in the parking lot but
you really don't want to have a car that's been modified illegally they can
end sending you to jail now lifted trucks are a big thing in the United
States a lot of guys do it but before you start lifting them way up in the air
you might want to check some of your local regulations because lifting them
too high makes them handled poorly makes them easier to roll over they're getting
more accidents and in some states it's illegal for example if you raise a car
more than 22 inches in Florida or Ohio they can give you a ticket and force you
to put it back and if it's a truck in those same states you can't lift them
more than 26 inches and take a state like Indiana there you can't raise the
bumper level more than three inches are designed for safety and you can't raise
it more than three inches or you're breaking the law and if you live in a
great state of California body lift it's only allowed five inches maximum and
take California again they have maximum frame Heights the highest that the frame
can be based on the weight of the vehicle if if a 4,500 grow straight
vehicle the maximum height you can raise in this twenty-seven inches if you have
a 7500 gross weight vehicle the maximum is 30 inches and if you have up to a
10,000 gross vehicle weight it's 31 inches is the maximum you can have the
frame race so basically they're telling you if you need a parachute to get out
of your vehicle it's so illegal it can't be up there too high now the next thing
is license plate covers you can't cover up any of the license plate parts I just
got back from Massachusetts I say to my wife look at that car in front of us
they had this giant plate it was advertising some dealership and you
couldn't even see any of the Massachusetts on the top you could just
see the slogan on the bottom but you couldn't even read Massachusetts that
was illegal and of course one of the popular things in Russia is
trying to control license plates that will flip of the switch you can't even read
them at all of course those are totally illegal you get calling one of those
they're certainly gonna throw you in the slammer if they see you turning it on
and you're trying to get away with no readable license at all now the next is window
tints this is the Toyota factory window tint you can see you can still see
inside the seams in there again this varies by state law here in Texas they
have a certain amount of darkness and I see it bypassed all the time I live here
in Texas if I was a cop I would pull over every car I saw at night with
heavily tinted windows people could be behind there with a gun coming after you
those people need to be taken off the road having garbage like that some
states go even further Illinois prohibits cider front window tinting and
let you have a medical condition they're obviously worried about the police are
gonna not be able to see what's going on I guess maybe Chicago with a Chicago mob
they wouldn't be able to see in those cars when they're pulling them over now
in more liberal states like Texas the police often do have window tinting
devices to see how much tint is in I can't stand it when some idiot cuts
me off and I pull up and I can't even see who's driving the vehicle it's
gotten to a point of ridiculousness there now New York State is even more
restrictive they have a law that says 70% of the light has to be able to pass
through those windows I've seen in works probably 10 or 12 percent here in Texas
so now just like laws they have against lifting them too high many states have
laws against lowering them too low for example George only allows a maximum
lowering of two inches of either the bumper or the frame but California has
no laws all about lowering and neither does Arizona I guess that's low rider's
paradise there and another modification that gets you in trouble of the law is
booming sound system yeah I'm going on a road well that's illegal in many places
in many states cops can give you a ticket depending on how loud it is from
a certain distance they have decibel limits to how loud you can have those
things turned up now Florida used to have them but in 2012 their Supreme
Court cut that law down though if you have local laws banning it the local
police can still give tickets or making too much noise disturbing the peace I
guess Pennsylvania has a law that says you can't play your music
at an unusual volume and they're not supposed to be over there at 50 feet
away there they can call it disorderly conduct and you know what I can figure
listening to this stuff I think it should be a law against bad taste too
because a lot of this music it's really crap now stranger it up radar detectors are
legal on every state except Virginia and Washington DC for normal drivers but
interestingly enough it's illegal for commercial drivers to have them so all
the big truck drivers that are not legally allowed to have radar detectors
and even if it's legal some states have laws that say if you mount on the
dashboard that's obstructing your vision and that's against the law too so you
really want to check the local laws when you put the stuff in I know when I lived
in Canada it was illegal to have any radar detectors and if you had them at
the border driving in they take them from you and then give them back when
you came back over the border because they didn't want people cheating the
speed tickets now radar jammers are totally illegal you caught one of those
it's up to $50,000 fine they're five years in jail in any ways the FCC says
radar jammers have been illegal since 1996 so they can go back to you
federally anywhere if you even buy in one of these things you're not even
supposed to be able to sell them in stores and they can't advertise them
either now one of the biggest modifications people do are exhaust modifications and
most places have laws for that too about how loud they can be and this is more
than a double-edged sword probably a triple edged sword you modify
your exhaust generally you're also modifying your car's anti-pollution
system and you're breaking federal law so in most places you can't take the
catalytic converters off and run straight pipes if you want it from a
mechanic standpoint mine you can't just go and bolt new stuff five things are
more complicated than when I was a young mechanic where's your mechanic sure you
can put on straight pipes worse came to worse you could read you out the
carburetor with the $10 kit but today their fuel injected
if you're gonna do that put it on a dyno they'd have to retune it they'd have to
remap the computer software to make it run right it would be a gigantic pain in
the rear end and then you still might be breaking a lot by making too much noise
nothing that's my to get your trouble is beyond lights yeah you know in a to
thousands of people started putting neon lights on everything they look
cool at night the problem is it can become distracting to other vehicles
there's various local laws for that stuff that you got to check before you start
throwing that stuff on for example blue and red lights are banned in most states
you can't have blue or red neon lights on because it confuses with safety
vehicles now light bars are real handy for off-road vehicles but you start
using those things on road they can be very illegal unless you're covering them
up it's why they got those cars on them it's more than just to keep dirt off
your use those off-road truck lights in traffic at night
they're so bright they can even bounce off oncoming traffic scatter light
everywhere if you're using those on the road and the cops see I guarantee you you're
gonna get a gigantic ticket now the last thing I got to talk about is putting
nitrous kits in a car adding nitrous oxide to get more power in a vehicle and
when you turn them on they get tons of power that's why most guys that use them
they hide the bottles under the seats or somewhere so the cops can't see them
and they have all the piping hidden under the engine so even if they pop the hood
they won't see them so those place it's extremely illegal to have nitrous setups
on a car you're driving on the street, so if
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